2012 Events Discussion
Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Beams just dumped on a 170 pb^-1 fill! Is this a record for the LHC so far?
Now filling with a new scheme. Still 1380b, but few more expected bunch pairs at IP 1 and 5, (CMS/ATLAS) and a few less at point 8 (LHCb). Anyone know why the change?
Now filling with a new scheme. Still 1380b, but few more expected bunch pairs at IP 1 and 5, (CMS/ATLAS) and a few less at point 8 (LHCb). Anyone know why the change?
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Can anybody explain to me what causes the short downward blips every 100 mins or so in the luminosity trace during stable beams? At first I thought they were glitches but they seem too regular to be unintentional.
Fingers crossed but things seem to be running smoothly again. Impressive work.
Fingers crossed but things seem to be running smoothly again. Impressive work.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
If it's LHCb it will be the luminosity levelling working. Otherwise it's possibly something similar with the beam alignment being tuned slightly.Tim Bergel wrote:Can anybody explain to me what causes the short downward blips every 100 mins or so in the luminosity trace during stable beams? At first I thought they were glitches but they seem too regular to be unintentional.
Fingers crossed but things seem to be running smoothly again. Impressive work.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Yes a new record as announced here - https://twitter.com/#!/CMSexperimentLongshot wrote:Beams just dumped on a 170 pb^-1 fill! Is this a record for the LHC so far?
Now filling with a new scheme. Still 1380b, but few more expected bunch pairs at IP 1 and 5, (CMS/ATLAS) and a few less at point 8 (LHCb). Anyone know why the change?
Not quite sure why the new scheme but IP1 and 5 are CMS and ATLAS so they'll take all the collisions they can get. The thought appears to be to avoid IP8 only collisions (i.e. bunches that only collide in IP8), not sure why need to read a few more reports.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Check the LHCb log and those chnages luminosity seem to line up with LHCadjusting the Beam.
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They seem to have broken their record of yesterday already. Fill 2646 passing through 180 and approaching 200 fb-1.
https://lhc-statistics.web.cern.ch/LHC-Statistics/
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And indeed Fill 2646 is another record.
16 hours 6 minutes of stable beams 187.8 pb-1 delivered to ATLAS 194 pb-1 delivered to CMS.
With 2 fb-1 in the bank already this year they have to do that forty more times and they will have the 10 fb-1 they targeted for. (Fifty more times if the target was 12 fb-1 I forget now)
https://lhc-statistics.web.cern.ch/LHC-Statistics/
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And indeed Fill 2646 is another record.
16 hours 6 minutes of stable beams 187.8 pb-1 delivered to ATLAS 194 pb-1 delivered to CMS.
With 2 fb-1 in the bank already this year they have to do that forty more times and they will have the 10 fb-1 they targeted for. (Fifty more times if the target was 12 fb-1 I forget now)
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Every now and again there is a luminosity scan to make sure that the beams are fully in collision this produces the blipsCan anybody explain to me what causes the short downward blips every 100 mins or so in the luminosity trace during stable beams? At first I thought they were glitches but they seem too regular to be unintentional.
Fingers crossed but things seem to be running smoothly again. Impressive work.
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And another record fill 2651 over 200 pb-1 delivered to both CMS and ATLAS.
Good show!
Good show!
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Thank you everyone for coming up with answers to my question. Much appreciated.
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A question for those in the know at the LHC, will they consider limiting the length of fills?
An un-scientific possibly anecdotal observation notes that the record fill of about 20 hours( fill 6551) produced on average 10.7 pb-1 / hour of integrated luminosity whereas shorter fills ( fill 6557 ) produced on average 15.3 pb-1 / hour of integrated luminosity. Assuming they are able to refill, squeeze and adjust in under two hours wouldn't shorter runs ( 6 - 8 hours ) be more efficient?
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An un-scientific possibly anecdotal observation notes that the record fill of about 20 hours( fill 6551) produced on average 10.7 pb-1 / hour of integrated luminosity whereas shorter fills ( fill 6557 ) produced on average 15.3 pb-1 / hour of integrated luminosity. Assuming they are able to refill, squeeze and adjust in under two hours wouldn't shorter runs ( 6 - 8 hours ) be more efficient?
Thanks.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Seems reasonable what you say, but to me it rather also applies here: never touch a running system, average turnaroundtimes of 2h look like nothing more than a nice wish to me. Observing rather shows that problemtimes of 5 to 10h after every 2nd dump seem to be the more likely case atm.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
They do optimize for this, except they don't expect the shortest posible turnaround time but an average one.
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Re: 2012 Events Discussion
Pesky cold compressor in P8 giving problems. AGAIN! I bet there were thunderstorms in the Geneva area Friday night / Saturday morning as the power perturbations they cause seem to give the Cryo system in particular big problems.
I realize a battery based UPS would be prohibitively expensive to protect the Cryo system (and PCs and crates) from disruptions caused by lightning hits on the hundreds of Kilometres of power lines feeding the CERN complex but I wonder if they have done any studies on flywheel based UPS capable of smoothing out lightning caused perturbations that usually only last a second or two. I envision a number of smaller units (rather than one very large one) distributed around the ring and located close to the loads.
With the economic situation in Europe looking the way it does I suppose it's enough to hope to maintain the status quo let alone any capital expenditure on improvements.
I realize a battery based UPS would be prohibitively expensive to protect the Cryo system (and PCs and crates) from disruptions caused by lightning hits on the hundreds of Kilometres of power lines feeding the CERN complex but I wonder if they have done any studies on flywheel based UPS capable of smoothing out lightning caused perturbations that usually only last a second or two. I envision a number of smaller units (rather than one very large one) distributed around the ring and located close to the loads.
With the economic situation in Europe looking the way it does I suppose it's enough to hope to maintain the status quo let alone any capital expenditure on improvements.